Review of Parasyte: The Maxim

*may include spoilers Parasyte is an horror, action anime and is animated by Madhouse. It is based off of the popular manga series, which is about a 17 year old being infected with a parasite. The plot is quite dark. It is not scary but has some gore in it. The pacing was fine in the whole show, and it was serialised. The story was quite slow paced. Parasyte often reflected on what it means to be human, which is not that unique but they did it well. The animation was great. It wasn't to shiny and bright, and it wasn't too dark. It had a dull, realisticlook, which I loved. The character designs were great, but the main characters looked quite small for 17 year olds. Other then that, each of the character designs fitted the characters. The action scenes were very fast and looked beautiful.

The characters were well written. Shinichi Izumi was the main character. He had a lot of character development and changed a lot. He was compassionate and likable. Satomi Murano was his best friend/girlfriend. She was kind of annoying and it seemed she was there just so the main character could have a love interest. All she did was notice that he was changing and get saved by him and that pretty much sums up her character. Migi, the parasite that infects Shinichi's right hand was very entertaining. He changed in the show, to act more like Shinichi and I found the way he pronounced Shinichi's name amusing. I always love a character who's is serious, nearly all of the time and intelligent. The rest of the characters were well written and a lot of them die but most of their deaths don't effect me that much.

I watched the Sub. The voice acting is great. Migi's voice was my favourite as it sounded kind of cold and fitted his personality well.

I hated the OP. Its one of my least favourite that I've listened to. It sounds like a terrible knockoff of Hunter X Hunter's first ED and the auto tune hurts my ears. The Ending is a boring, slow song that are very commonly used by a lot of anime, for their ED.

In conclusion, this is one of the best anime I've watched. It was very entertaining, had brilliant fight scenes, had great animation and I enjoyed it a lot.